Happy 107th Birthday Dr. Seuss!
Here is what the kids woke up to today!
Happy 107th Birthday to the famous Dr. Seuss! We are celebrating all month and kicked off our Seuss month with "And to Think That I Saw it on Mulberry Street'.
This is a book that Dr. Seuss 1st wrote and it was about the street he grew up on. The kids were cracking up at this book....After reading it we went to Google Earth and found Mulberry Street in Springfield, MA and looked around a bit. Incorporating our computer skills, maps and geography into this book!
The kids thought this was so cool. Of course we had to find our house next and then my laptop died 8( I am using the kids PC to post this and will be shopping for a new one this weekend (looking for recommendations folks)
PBS IS showing new eposides of "The Cat In The Hat Knows A lot About that" This morning so they will be watching also!
We will be going to Michael's Craft store today to participate in a Dr Seuss Make N Take Craft. The kids can make Seuss Bookmarks (FREE EVENT). Molly made a Cat In the Hat house complete with the hat on the top.
We also started our new Science unit on BONES. Again, the kids were loving this.
Are you celebrating Dr Seuss this month?
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Rebecca
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(attached to homeroad.net) I am doing Dr. Seuss this week as well. You did a great job with your kids!
Susan
@ Rebecca, do you recommend buying wheat local or do you buy over the internet? My husband and I have been talking about buying wheat for planting and grinding, etc.
Susan, I checked out that site, love it and now am a follower of it! Thanks.
Emily - thanks for the kind words. I just try to make learning as far as possible, so they WANT to learn! We have many Dr Seuss teachings coming up the entire month! Check back!
I also always buy Apple Care, which gets you a couple extra yeas of warranty. If there is ever a problem, we take it in & they fix it. Or, the last time I took in my laptop, they didn't fix it. Something was wrong & they couldn't figure it out. So they gave me a new laptop instead. It ended up being a Macbook Pro, which I'd been hoping I could save up to buy for myself anyway. I liked the price of free (technically I paid a couple hundred 3 years ago for apple care).
Not only can my kids use these easily (8, 5, 2) but they are really well worth it. I've yet to meet someone who drinks the Apple-juice & then regrets it. I know a lot of people who go through a lot of PCs, though. I used to be one of them. The previous 3 years we must have gone through 3 pcs!
This is just the boost I needed this morning; thanks! : )
(I was thinking when I woke up, since I have no where to go, why should I even change out of my pajamas?)
I had no plans to celebrate Dr. Seuss today, but after reading your post I was inspired. We actually had Mulberry St. book in our Dr. Seuss collection and we just read it! Cute story. Then I went on the computer to look for links about Mulberry St. and I found this link here that you may not have come across yet:
http://urbancompass.net/?p=568
The link has still shots and then toward the bottom is a video from 2007 of the street with some history about it! It is about 6 minutes long and my kids enjoyed it!
So I'm wondering if the yellow house they showed that had a fire was Dr. Seuss' house??
Anyway, thanks for the inspiration and I hope you enjoy the link :)
Thanks for stopping by! Good to be connected with you.
Enjoy the day everyone!
Kimberly
I really admire you for the homeschooling. I would never have had the patience as much as I enjoyed my kids. Homework was enough "teaching" for me.
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